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“If I receive one, two, three more of these, I’m not sure I can do that for that many people,” said Butler of the stop-work orders.

A Florida marketing company laid off five employees after receiving a stop-work order on a federal contract.

Butler laid off five of his 80 employees last week after the shutdown triggered a stop-work order on one of its projects.

Since February, most staffers have been under a stop-work order that has effectively stalled the bulk of its probes — including ones into debanking.

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Bradner and other neighbors had seen other parking spaces in the neighborhood turn into construction sites overnight, such as on Normandie Avenue, where a stop-work order had halted the conversion of a garage into an ADU, making the parking space virtually useless, she said.

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